Best Evidence of Life After Death

Imagine this. You’re working in a hospice, and  one person there that you’ve taken a liking to   is a former Merchant Marine who is dying of  stomach cancer. Let’s call him Ron. One day   you are sitting at his bedside reading to him and  suddenly you feel a great force take hold of you.   Before you know it, you are floating in the  air, as if you are somehow out of your body.   But guess what, there is another ghostly  body floating in the air. It's Ron, and he   looks at you and smiles. He looks very content  indeed, as if trying to tell you that he’s A-OK   with clocking out and getting a new room in the  afterlife. Suddenly you feel yourself drop, as if   your soul has joined your body again. On the bed  next to you is Ron. He takes a few more breaths   and dies. The End.  Ok, so we know some of you viewers  occasionally allude to the possibility   of Infographics Show writers ingesting large  amounts of hallucinogens and then writing a story,   and that’s because some of our tales are quite  far out. Today is about as far out as it gets,   and when this is finished, you might well  think very differently about life, and death.  Ron was real, well, according to William  Peters, the man who was volunteering at   a hospice when his soul left his body. As you can imagine, William was a bit   freaked out by what happened, as anyone would be.  He talked to his friends about it and was like,   dude, I left my body today. His friends  were like, dude, go easy on the ketamine.  But William knew that he’d experienced  something earth-shattering,   and so he started to research the matter. It was  no small deal of course. If that is true, then   science needs to do some explaining and atheists  might want to start revising their convictions.  What William found out was that what he’d  experienced was something that other people   have experienced, and the term for  it is a “shared-death experience.”  Before we talk about people who’ve  seen incredibly, mind-blowing things   after they died and came back, let’s first  look into shared near-death experiences.  First you need to know that the term was  coined by a guy named Raymond Moody. He   spent two decades researching what happens on the  other side and during his research he realized   that quite a few folks walk down tunnels towards a  bright light, but some people meet other spiritual   beings just before they kick the bucket. Raymond said he never quite bought the   idea of near-death experiences being the  consequence of something called “anoxia”,   a lack of oxygen in the brain that leads to  tripping out for a few seconds. He said that this   is unlikely, and how do you explain people who  are perfectly healthy doing a jig with the dying?  “We don’t have that option in shared-death  experiences because the bystanders aren’t ill or   injured, and yet they experience the same kind of  things,” said Raymond in an interview. We should   add here that most shared death experiences are  different from Bill’s in that people dream of the   person dying, and when they wake up that person  in the dream is dead. This has happened a lot.  It happened to the American artist,  Caledonia Curry. This is what she said,   “I opened the window, and the snow  started to come through my body,   transforming into points of light that bloomed  into these intricate snow blossoms. I heard my   mom’s voice talking to me, and I was filled with  a very profound sense of wellbeing and love.   I woke up weeping, my face covered in tears.” A few hours later, her sister called to tell   her that mom was dead. Do a bit of research, and  you can find stories like this all over the web.  Ok, so now the skeptics take the floor and  grab the mic. “Ladies and gentlemen,” they say,   “There’s nothing to see here. Don’t rush back to  church too fast and put a hold on that Paranormal   club membership payment.” They say, “The reason  this happens, and we agree it happens, is just   because they are traumatized, not enough oxygen  is getting to their brain, or they are affected   by medicine, or they are simply dreaming. All  these things can do strange things to the mind.”  “Really,” quip the folks that have experienced  this, “Your scientific explanation for Ron   floating in the air and people dying in dreams  with their loved ones is that grief did it? Hmm,   it sounds to me that because science can’t  explain this phenomenon you are just blaming   temporary madness or a brain that isn’t working  right. That’s too easy. It’s a cop out.”  Back to Raymond Moody. He went on  to obtain a PhD in psychology and   became a forensic psychiatrist and philosopher. He was an academic and later he became a writer,   a writer who wrote a lot about deathbed  experiences. He wrote a book about this called   “Life After Life'' and in it he details scores  of cases where folks were clinically dead but   went on a bit of a jaunt. Raymond also believes  in past lives, having had nine of them himself.   Have you ever had déjà vu? Well, that might be  because you had a past life, according to Raymond.  Anyway, he started writing the book after speaking  to a psychiatrist named Dr. George Ritchie.   George, now dead, explained that when he was 20 he  died for nine and a bit minutes. He was pronounced   dead twice by the doctor, but the stubborn  man didn’t give up the ghost. He came back   to life eventually, but only after he got a Pulp  Fiction-esque stab in the heart with adrenaline.  So, what happened during those nine minutes? Well, believe it or not, he claims to have   met the guy that stars in the thriller  book called the bible. Yep, he came face   to face with Jesus Christ. Christ took him  on a journey through space and time, which   was a bit of a trip because there were all kinds  of dimensions. He once said, “Death is nothing   more than a doorway, something you walk through.” Some folks have questioned the validity of this   guy’s experience. They’ve said, he was American  and Christian, so isn’t it just perfect that JC   rules the universe, why not Buddha, or Krishna, or  Thor. Imagine nine minutes hanging out with Thor,   how cool would that be… Ok, back to being serious.  Raymond – still alive and kicking – included over  150 cases of near-death experiences in his book.   This book by the way has sold over  13 million copies and is kind of   the bible of NDEs. This is the lowdown on them: Many folks feel peace when released. Being dead is   like being on molly, people tend to feel ecstatic.  Many of them come out of their bodies and go   someplace. Many walk down a dark tunnel, and for  some folks there’s a bright light at the end of   that tunnel. Some others meet another being, just  like George met the son of God. Some go back to   their past, and others visit a land of sheer  beauty. We should say that Raymond said he had   his own NDE after he tried to take his own life. Empiricists don’t believe a word of it, or rather,   they don’t deny those people had that wonderful  experience, but they say it has nothing to do   with an afterlife. Listen on, and then you can  tell us what you think about this. Maybe some   things just can’t be scientifically explained. Perhaps that’s what the Society for Psychical   Research in London believed in the 1800s when they  wrote about what they called “death-bed visions”.  The main author of that paper was named William  Barrett. In the early 20th century he was a   professor of physics at the Royal College of  Science in Dublin. His wife was an obstetrician,   and she saw a lot of women die in childbirth.  Barrett spent decades listening to her   stories and trying to understand strange  things that happened when people died, or   just before they died. He wrote a book about  it, but he died a year before the book came out.  So, what’s in the book, you’re  wondering? Here is one story.  One woman who was on her deathbed said she saw  her sister, Vera. She held out her hand and said   hello, but what the dying woman didn’t know  is that her sister had passed away some three   weeks earlier. Anyhow, she got reacquainted and  then expired herself. According to that book,   that kind of thing happened to lots of people. Later in the 1970s a researcher named Karlis   Osis decided to do a deep dive into deathbed  visions, but Karlis wondered how they went down   in non-Christian societies as well as Christian  societies – mainly Christian, we should say.  Karlis wrote that in the U.S. a woman was on her  deathbed, pretty much comatose, but suddenly she   just sat up and had a huge grin on her face. She  said, “Oh, Katie, Katie” as if looking at someone.   She then flopped down and died. It turned out  she had a friend and an aunt both named Katie.  But in India things were a bit different for  the most part. Dying folks did have visions,   but they weren’t often of mere people. Much of  the time they met Gods, especially Hindu Gods.   Karlis wrote that a lot of folks claimed  to meet Lord Yama, aka, The God of Death.   They said hello and then they died. Perhaps the weirdest thing that   Karlis wrote about was some guy in Muslim  hospital in India. He was actually Christian,   which isn’t uncommon in India. So, this man,  in his fifties, was about to be released from   hospital after being treated for a broken hip.  The doctor said the man was in good health,   but then complained of a pain in his chest.  The doctor said don’t worry, you’ll be fine,   after which the man said, “I am going to die.” “How do you know that,” asked the doctor. The   guy told him that he’d just seen Jesus and  Jesus waved him over. After JC left the room,   the guy told the doctor he was going to die. He  said he had just a few minutes left, and get this,   he was right. His last words were, “I am going.” As for the Hindu experience, one guy in an Indian   hospital was in because of a high fever caused  by an infectious disease. One day he just sat   up in bed and said, “Somebody is standing there!  He has a cart with him so he must be a Yamdoot!   He must be taking someone with him. He is  teasing me that he is going to take me!”  What’s a Yamdoot, you are thinking. The  answer is a messenger of death in the   Hindu religion. Anyway, the guy then said  that someone was pulling him out of bed,   and he asked a nurse to help him. It was too  late, Yamadoot had him. He croaked there and then.  Ok, you’re thinking, these people  are just hallucinating. It happens,   people lose the plot sometimes. They see things. Hold your horses you dogged skeptic, haven’t you   heard of something called terminal lucidity? We guess you haven’t. It’s quite a strange   phenomenon. What happens is a person  is very ill, physically or mentally,   but they suddenly become better... and then  they die. They might be suffering from a   severe psychiatric or neurological disorder,  unable to do anything, never mind communicate,   but just before they pop their clogs they get up  and seem totally normal, like completely fixed,   talkative, happy, not sick at all. It’s as if they  are allowed one last goodbye before they conk.   Some folks have even come out of comas and said  “Hey, whassup everybody,” and then they die.  It’s weird, and science has never really been  able to explain why it happens. People have been   writing about this going back to ancient times,  with some scholars saying the re-emerged seemed   “spiritualized and elated.” It’s as if they  know they are going to die, but with the help   of something they get to bid farewell and not  dribble phlegm down their chin while doing it.  According to the Journal of Nervous and Mental  Disease these reawakened people bite the dust in   a few days after their terminal lucidity and some  of them go within hours or minutes. In one case   a guy had been catatonic for 20 years. One day he  stood up, looked normal, and then he checked out.  In the UK a 92-year-old woman living in a nursing  home had suffered from severe Alzheimer’s disease   for many years. During the latter years  she didn’t know where she was, who she was,   who her family was…she didn’t know anything. She  was pretty much not in this world. But guess what,   one day she just turned back to normal. She  recalled her past, could have long conversations,   knew all her family and reminisced with them.  She was happy, talkative, perfectly normal,   and then she just passed away. The researchers  who wrote about this said it happened a lot.  The last case, the strangest of all,  was in Germany. It sounds unbelievable,   and there are those that doubt it  happened, but it is fact that respected   physicians witnessed it and wrote about it. It’s about a 26-year-old woman named Anna   Katharina Ehmer. She was committed to an asylum  and was looked after by two well-known physicians.   This woman had been severely retarded from birth,  never able to talk, never able to properly feed   herself, and she pooed and peed herself every day.  Doctors said she was like a wild animal, never   really aware of what was happening around her. Ok, this is going to blow you away. So,   one day she was in a hospital bed after having her  leg amputated because of osseous tuberculosis. Her   family were there because the doctors said  she wasn’t going to make it. This woman,   this woman that had never said a single word  or recognized a family member, suddenly started   chatting with everyone there. She was overjoyed,  intelligent, and happily talked about life.  Doctors said she looked like she was enjoying  spiritual ecstasy. For half an hour she talked   and laughed and smiled so wide. She then  started singing a song that went like this,   “Where does the soul find its home, its  peace? Peace, peace, heavenly peace!’”  Half an hour later, she was dead. This is a true story, has been talked   about in journals, and no one, we mean no one,  has ever been able to explain what happened.   In fact, The Scientific American wrote that it  was speculated that most scientists have shied   away from that case and similar cases just because  they don’t meld well with scientific materialism.  Can you explain it? Now you need to watch this,   “What Happens When You Die?” Or, have a look at  this, “What Happens To You Just Before You Die.”

Channel: The Infographics Show

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Keywords: death, dead, life after death, after dead, after life, afterlife, the infographics show, near death experience, cross over, crossed over, life after, when you die, what happens, after death

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Length: 12min 1sec (721 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 09 2020

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